• You sat for hours smiling at your newborn’s face
• Your house smelled like a combination of diapers and spit up
• The best conversation you ever had involved cooing
• It was celebration time when there was pee pee in the potty
• Tears fell after saying goodbye to your child on the school bus on their first day of school
• Your child gave you their first mother’s day gift of a clay handprint
• Mother’s Day meant all the kids waking you up by jumping on your bed and presenting you with homemade gifts and flowers from outside
• You spent every weeknight and Saturdays cheering them on at softball games and other activities

You took family portraits like this together

• Getting your little ballerinas ready for their dance recital and smiling proudly in the audience
• You stayed up all night and early morning while your husband snored ,anxiously waiting for your daughter  to return safely  home to you after prom
• Saying goodbye  as you moved your child into college meant sobbing while trying to drive home
• You listened to your daughter say,”I do” and start her new life away from you 

   

• Seeing you newborn grandbabies lying on your daughter’s stomach made you realize how good life was
• Even though the kids are gone and the house seems empty there will always be the memories of remember when.

Happy Mother’s Day to all.

-Mama Bell

Just a few weeks ago my house was filled with Christmas decorations and lots of family. How the time flies!

They wanted that escape from their realities. What they needed was mom’s cooking, cookie baking, clothes washed, a clean bathroom, Christmas movies in the dvd player, and their clean beds to tuck into. What I didn’t mention at the beginning of my reflection was that it took me a few weeks to recuperate after everyone left. When the refrigerator stopped opening because it was empty, the washer stopped humming because it was leaking, and the shower line dwindled because the rod feel off the wall. That’s my reality. I love you guys.

-Mama Bell